🍲 Pita

Name: Pita
Ingredients: 250 ml (1 cup) warm water; 1 tbsp instant yeast; 1 tsp salt; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 500 ml (2 cups or 17 fl oz) durum wheat flour

Middle Eastern · 5 ingredients · 6 steps

Pita (also known as pita bread, Arabic bread etc.) is a yeasted wheat flatbread originating from North-African, to Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. It is usually eaten with sauces, dips and fillings. Dishes that use pita include kebab, gyros, and shwarma.

8 pitas3

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Ingredients

250 ml (1 cup) warm water
1 tbsp instant yeast
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp vegetable oil
500 ml (2 cups or 17 fl oz) durum wheat flour

Method

Dissolve the yeast in a bowl of warm water. Add salt, oil and flour, mix it, and knead it into a dough.
Let the dough rise to twice its size.
Divide the risen dough into 8 pieces and shape them into balls.
Then roll the balls into flat and round pita breads (to a diameter of 15 cm or 6 inches).
Let the breads rise in a warm place covered with a cloth for about 30 minutes.
Bake at 225°C (435°F) for about 12 minutes.

Where this came from. Adapted from Pita in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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